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In reply to the discussion: How will you change your life if Mitt "wins?" [View all]MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)33. I will hope the money will start flowing again.
Because really, it can't be much worse under him than it is for me now. I'm out of work for fifteen straight months now and have only worked for twenty of the forty four that President Obama has been in office. It's been horrible for me and my industry. I know it's not Obama's fault that the congress won't let him do anything but that doesn't make it suck any less.
If Romney somehow wins I hope the richie rich assholes will stop striking and start building things again.
I doubt I'll be changing much. I'll probably save more for the next rainy day that will surely be coming in a few years. If I'm fortunate enough to get back to work.
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I wouldn't be able to take the unctuous Prince Smarming on my TV screen
aint_no_life_nowhere
Oct 2012
#8
Hide as best I can and hope for better days, they call it "hunkering down" around here.
1-Old-Man
Oct 2012
#15
My life wouldn't change in the slightest. I'll still get up at the same time.
cherokeeprogressive
Oct 2012
#44
Same thing I do every time a Republican is President. Move my 401(k) out of the market. n/t
ieoeja
Oct 2012
#49
I'll roll with the punches. I won't abandon my country to the jackanapes. I'll organize.
Bucky
Oct 2012
#61
I'll probably see my retirement accounts tank like I saw in 2008. Obama saved my
catbyte
Oct 2012
#64